The Ol' Vans Warped Tour is heading through St. Louis this weekend, and the RFT put together this first-impression bordering on free-form-poetry field guide to all 63 (!) bands playing. I made this drawing to go along with it. Can you spy with your little eye brokeNCYDE?!? I've crazy cartoon crowd scenes ever since I was a little kid, probably because of those Mad Magazine 2-page spreads that contained what seemed like hundreds (probably more like dozens) of sight-gags. 
Leon talks gross food and dead animals (again) in this week's installment of Amazing Facts & Beyond. Pictured: Stargazy Pie
We just posted another one of our manly infographics up at Manolith. This one's about how to jerry-rig your own lo-fi air conditioning unit out of stuff you might have lying around your basement. More info here.
Here were my rough thumbnail sketches:
And here was my more detailed sketch:
And here's the whole thing. Keep cool out there!
Last night at Drawing Club we made a bunch of these 'exquisite corpse' type characters, inspired by this awesome toy we all had a little kids.
I cut a bunch of the iconic yellow, orange and red polygons out of colored cardstock, showed up, chowed down on some pizza, and then we all went to town. Sorry for the crummy snapshots. My digital camera is the same vintage at the Mighty Men & Monster Maker.
Anyway, until I build and upload a Flash Module allowing you to build your own, here are a few more randomly generated characters:
I found this alternate version of that shark whistle illustration. Unpublished, because I don't think Shark Whistles actually exist (yet?!).
1. Minnie Miñoso (OF)
Here are some sketches:
Oh, and singing the National Anthem at Leon's Fantasy All-Star Game: Huey Lewis & The News.
Random unpublished painting done for a friend-of-a-friend based on an old drawing. Makes me wish I was eating a hot dog.
Random unpublished illustration I did a while back that makes me wish I was still at the beach.
Leon was inspired by the hundreds of burning bug bites he got on his feet while in Florida. Here's the whole strip. I love fireworks packaging vintage & modern, and here's a painting I copied off an old Black Cat firecracker:
While I'm posting up random stuff, here's the kinda reference Leon sends me along with his manuscript when it comes time to draw the comic:
Have a safe July 4th, everyone!
New Amazing Facts & Beyond today, in the paper and on the blog!
Leon got inspired by this recent study by the Journal for Consumer Research that reveals that "healthy dining" options included on a restaurant's menu usually leads to more indulgent & UNhealthy choices. Leon, of course, knows why:
Be careful out there, and watch out for the Hypnomenutists!
This is a t-shirt that I designed for WOOT. It is for sale today and today ONLY. UPDATE: if you missed buying the shirt yesterday, you can buy it for a limited time here. Here was my sketch: 
Another one (this is actually the kind of pencil sharpener I use):
Dave Matthews Band and Phish are both in town next week, and the RFT did this article which interviewed the rabid fan/phanbases of each, gauging their attitudes toward the other. I illustrated this series of charts that visualized this important data. My sketches:
Another one:
In case you haven't heard, Leon Beyond & His "Amazing Facts & Beyond" are back in the Riverfront Times newspaper every week. This week Leon's brings us one of Old Timey Baseball's darkest chapters, the infamous 20 year-long pitchers' duel between rival fireballers Cy Young and Stub Suffolk.
Be sure to read the whole thing in the paper or on Leon's blog.
I painted this cover to the latest CINEFAMILY movie theater program, as part of a film festival dedicated the films of the classic comedian and auteur Jerry Lewis. The movie we wanted to focus on was his 1961 slapstick "romance" THE LADIES MAN.
The centerpiece of the film - apart from the crazy/extravagant cutaway dollhouse set that Lewis built - is the constant tormet experienced by a heartbroken man who has sworn off of women ... and naturally gets a job working in a boarding house for beautiful ladies.
... and tried to quickly sketch Lewis' hyper-physical, destructive goofball comedy while capturing the oily sexual tension that seems poised to combust at any moment. 
Here was my sketch.
I ended up doing the drawing with colored ink (Faber Castell PITT pens) and coloring it with some cheap watercolours and a hot pink highlighter. It's about 16" x 20". Type was added later. You should really watch Ladies Man - it's weird and good. I need to watch more Jerry Lewis movies.
